Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History (Häftad)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9780140292602 - UTGIVEN: 200007The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bl[...]
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan (Häftad)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9780142003787 - UTGIVEN: 2003-12With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel's Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams--the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell's bestselling novel Sho[...]
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (Häftad)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9780312421298 - UTGIVEN: 200211
The Boy Who Went to War: The Story of a Reluctant German Soldier in WWII (Inbunden)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9780312590796 - UTGIVEN: 2011-10A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many-- this is the story of Wolfram Aichele, a boy whose childhood was stolen by a war in which he had no choice but to fight.Giles Milton has been a writer and historian for many years, wr[...]
Nathaniel's Nutmeg (Storpocket)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9780340696767 - UTGIVEN: 1999-12In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to [...]
Samurai William (Storpocket)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9780340794685 - UTGIVEN: 200302In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan. The traders were even mor[...]
White Gold (Häftad)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9780340794708 - UTGIVEN: 200505This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. U[...]
Russian Roulette (Inbunden)
avGiles Milton
ISBN: 9781444737028 - UTGIVEN: 2013-08RUSSIAN ROULETTE tells the story of the first global plot and the British spies who were sent to thwart it. The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. It was to bring together two deadly forces - So[...]
